?But that is Government. And when we promised people that we were ready to govern, that is the commitment we made.
He added: ?By showing people that coalition can work, we can prove that plural, liberal politics is best for Britain ... All of us are going to hear some people predict the worst for our Party. The same people who have been underestimating the Liberal Democrats for as long as we have existed.
?But we prove them wrong at every single turn.?
Mr Hughes, who abstained in the vote to increase tuition fees, will now travel the country effectively representing and attempting to explain the controversial higher education policy.
As an ?Advocate for Access to Education?, Downing Street said that the Liberal Democrat MP would work with the Government to ensure that it meets the ?goal of increasing participation in higher education by those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds?.
The Prime Minister said: ?I am pleased that Simon is taking on this important role, listening to young people and working with them on how best to communicate and explain the opportunities open to them.?
Mr Hughes said: ?Parliament has settled the maximum university fee level in England from 2012 and we now have a critically important task to ensure that every potential student has access to all the facts about the costs, benefits and opportunities of further and higher education.
?I will work with every person of goodwill to ensure that from 2011 we have the best system of educational advice, information and support in place, designed to benefit all potential students and to ensure that disadvantaged young people increasingly gain access to further and higher education.?
The announcement comes as the Liberal Democrats seek to regain the political initiative after nine ministers were secretly recorded by this newspaper criticising Government policies and their Conservative colleagues.
Mr Clegg and other senior Liberal Democrats are expected to stress the positive impact that they claim to be having on Government policies in the coming weeks.
Yesterday, in a newspaper interview, Danny Alexander, the Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said that forthcoming Government cuts were ?common sense?, ?progressive? and ?civilised?.
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